Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

A FRIDAY THE 13TH fan film made by teenagers.

A compilation of violent and graphic video and news footage.

Mother Nature and human emotions are placed in this melding of myth and aesthetic enigma in Kumar Shahani's short film of 25 minutes starring Mita Vashisht, created as a diploma submission for the Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) by editor and film's co-star Nandini Bedi.

A lyrical look at a challenge shared by people of all orientations across time: the lesbian break-up.

First personal experience with a Super-8 camera manually exposing film out of any light source.

A biker falls in love with the "good" girl of a gang, who spend their time stealing or having sex. Will love win?

Motorway, roads, villages of Northern France, Flanders. A man with a Super 8 camera films his route, the villagers and himself. Portraits, self-portrait. As the images unfold a young villager, Josse, is intrigued by the camera’s presence. For the cameraman the lens is an eye with which one films reality, for the villager the camera represents CINEMA, the magic of fiction. Josse accosts the cameraman and leads him across the fields where his girlfriend joins them. The outing becomes their production, with themselves in front of the camera. Games. Gradually diverted by Josse’s enthousiasme the film slides into moments of fiction, until its inevitable breakdown.

Lily, a stunning photograph model, suddenly notices that hair is growing on her face and escalating to a real "man's beard". Her lover, Richard, who has just returned from a prolonged business trip cannot help her. On the contrary, she is so exasperated that she runs away into the night of the big city where she has her first experiences as a "man".

Sotiris works as a night watchman in a mall.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Augusto Buenaventura and starred Jinggoy Estrada, Rio Locsin, ER Ejercito, Robin Padilla, Christopher Ad. Castillo.

This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960.

A Pepe Carvalho adventure.

A Singing Stream highlights the importance of religious faith and music in the Landis family, and shows the impact of tenant farming, Jim Crow, the New Deal, civil rights, Black Migration, and issue of land inheritance in this extended family.

Video film on the relationship between immigrant workers and the French working class, shown in working-class and student circles.

SuperTed teaches his friend Spotty how to cross the road safely.

A 1986 set of three French clay animation shorts: The Multi-Coloured Little Circus and The Two Little Nightwalkers, both by Jacques Remy-Girerd, and The Baby Seal by Pierre Veck.

An affirmative view of life and death. The images are almost without exception from the nineteen fifties; a ship launching, a woman dancing, a tree falling, a train passing- impersonal subjects which none the less are icons and metaphors for our most personal thoughts. Image after image emerge from darkness and hurl us toward remembrances of the purity and conflict that are part of our collective experiences of being alive. Music by David Byrne.

A woman waits for someone to visit her in a quiet village. What happens after the visitor arrives and their mysterious past form the story.

FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in such a way as to provide miniature, almost instantaneous fictions, confined and numerous, where meaning can occur between the frames as much as it might in the frame. Overall, the film could be described as a visual assault as well as a reference to the invasive nature of the act of taking photographs and more abstractedly with the problem of image or picture functioning as representation of some or all aspects of an object or thing. While the movements and the pace of the film are structured as to suggest relentlessness and insistence of control, the assembly of images therein serve to illustrate the nervous breakdown of the characters represented as their actions, forced into exact repetitions, lose their original expression and take on a new, more ominous existence.

A film about being young in Australia, shot at Parramatta Shoppingtown.

Panorama of authoritarianism and oppression, through three characters who move in sync with the musical score.

Earth, 1997. An evil alien threatens our planet. The only one who can stop it is Captain Electron.

The exploits of a psycho-sexual madman and the struggle to stop him.

A surrealist dolly shot. The thesis of the film seems summarized in which the character played by Frank Gonzalez (the fictional director of the film within the film) confesses to end his interviewer: "This film wants the viewer to reflect on the deceptive appearances can be."

After returning home, Coman Gettme discovers that his hometown has come to be governed strictly by fashion.

Shot in Palermiti and the Boston area of Massachusetts, MY TOWN/MIO PAESE tells the story of immigrants and their paesani in the province of Calabria, Italy. Although these immigrants left their village for a better life, they brought strong family, religious and cultural traditions to their new home. On-location footage and personal interviews in Palermiti and in Massachusetts show the ties between the two groups of Palermitesi. Despite their success in America, many immigrants hope to return to Palermiti. In fact, some of the people in Italy have reverse-emigrated.

While working on "Deutschlandbilder" (1983), Hartmut Bitomsky was examining film material produced by the Nazi regime when he came across an abundance of footage documenting the planning and construction of motorways. In this found footage documentary he investigates what this material actually says: the motorway is stylized within it as a promise of progress and modernity, a "lifeline of the nation", less a straightforward piece of infrastructure than a prestige object, a work of art.

A study of the movements of some animals, from a subjective point of view, which leads the viewer to feel as if they are in the skin of each one of them (jaguar, monkey, snake and hawk).

Cyndi Lauper live in Tokyo at Budokan Hall in September 1986 at the beginning of her 'True Colors' world tour.

Experience one of the most dramatic years in the history of the Monte-Carlo Rally with this comprehensive look at the 1986 World Rally Championship season-opener. Packed with incredible action footage from the historic mountain stages, plus interviews with legendary drivers and jaw-dropping slow-motion film, this is the complete story of an unforgettable event. The '86 Monte-Carlo Rally was the first round of what would prove to be the very last year of the awesomely powerful Group B 'supercars'. Enjoy the sights - and incredible sounds - of the Martini Lancia Delta S4, Audi Quattro S1, Peugeot 206 T16 and Metro 6R4 as they do battle.

This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.

The first documentary film of the USSR in 1986 about the severe and terrible consequences of drug use.

Promo/tourism video.

Bayu (Rano Karno), the son of a rich family, who ran away from home and became a busker. That's when he met Maya (Ira Wibowo), whom he helped from the mischievous actions of delinquent children. Maya falls in love with Bayu. Bayu himself was then accepted to work at Maya's father's company. Maya and Bayu's mother accompanied him to the offshore work location.

When inhabitants of an apartment complex don’t stop littering and polluting their surroundings, a huge garbage monster appears and starts punishing the people.

Pensioners Alfred, Rut, Sara, Hilma and Bertil are going on an unforgettable bus journey to Holland to meet the spring. During the trip the five recount their lives. Sara's grief, Rut who never got to meet her dad, Hilma and her cottage life and Alfred, who has been in love multiple times.

Journalists investigate a crime on the border with Portugal. Based on an argument by X.L. Méndez Ferrín.

Add a plot in English.

Pioneering video mixtape created by Film Threat founder Chris Gore, featuring juxtaposed clips of video oddities with an overarching theme of punk rock and its impact on society.

The ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.

Short doc on the making of the Otto mail-order catalog.

Short film.

Hendra, a long-time bachelor and son of a wealthy family, falls in love with Rini. But Rini lives with her three uncles who are still unmarried and they become stumbling blocks for Hendra. Each of them wants Rini to marry different people. The choices are a theater actor, a boxer, and even a parachutist. Each of her uncles is fooled one by one. The person who finally helps Rini is her aunt, who blames the three uncles for being old bachelors, when they should be married.

Fiji High Chief and Prime Minister Ratu Mara shows how archaeology throws new light on the settlement of his island home of Lakeba.

Silent Life records the first hours and days of life through a series of portraits of newborn babies in a hospital nursery. The alienating hospital environment, and the vulnerability of the babies' gestures and expressions, suggests a primal linking of birth and death.

Thrill to the action from a battle to the death between beautiful amazons, twisted mutants and sickening, deadly zombies sometime after WWIII as you also watch from behind the scenes as brilliant special effects are constructed by demented master craftsmen, some of whom seem to be losing their grip on reality! Which side of the camera are we really on? How far will these gut-wrenching effects go? The answer is further than ever before - more graphic scenes of violence, perversion, mutilation and slaught per minute than any horror feature ever made!

A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.